Fall 2013 : African American Studies 28AC Globalization and Minority American Communities

(3) Three hours of lecture per week. An examination of the movement of individuals, ideas, ideologies, and institutions between minority American communities in the United States—African Americans, Asian Americans, Chicanos—and their cultures of origin in the 19th and 20th centuries. The course will utilize the concepts of “migration,” “diaspora,” “otherness,” “multiculturalism,” and “global village” and will draw largely on social science perspectives. This course satisfies the American Cultures requirement.